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olugabbie:
The Islander-M is the only missile that has not been shot down in Ukraine so far.

What about Mr. Khinzal?

Enugurangers:
Please share the contract that both parties (i.e. Gazprom and Utilities in Germany) signed that states the above or even a verifiable website link? There would likely be a clause in the contract that will render it void if Gazprom can't deliver.

Possible. There ought to be some clause. Personally, I don't think the Germans would pay even if there is such a clause.

Alamkir:
MP for the German Nationalist Party AfD, Mr. Gunnar Lindemann on twitter:
— "Nordstream1 and NordStream2 rendered unusable simultaneously by sabotage.

So that Germany can only procure US fracking gas.

And quite coincidentally, a US naval formation was very close by.

With Friends Like these, who needs enemies?"

Succinctly put. But it's too late to cry. Let them dance to the tune of the music they chose to play. Karma is a bitchh.

Uprightness100:
BIDEN looks for the dead among the Living!

'Where's Jackie?' President Biden calls out congresswoman who died in a car accident in August during speech

Whoever tells you that Biden is the one ruling America doesn't like you at all.

Uprightness100:
Finland’s interior minister collapsed during a press conference on the explosion of the Russian gas pipes.
Europe is under a lot of pressure as winter approaches and energy prices are sky rocketing!

When you make your bed with the devil, be ready to be pushed out of it because he doesn't share without punishment.

gambojimeta:
Modified my post.

It's interesting to know Univerties are still open in Ukraine despite the bombardment by Russia.

That's why it's called an SMO, not a war.

RepoMan007:
Personally, the reason I think Russia is behind NS 1 & 2 disruption is their request of lifted sanctions being tied to it's repairs. There are many theories but one crooked and desperate party in the whole equation is Putin led Russia.

It makes me laugh to read troll posts as this. I wanted to ignore but I couldnt.

Yeah, the Russians are so dumb they are destroying their own energy infrastructure worth many billions of rubles. It's just as believable as the tale that they are shelling the Zaparpzia nuclear power plant so they can contaminate the area they hold, kill their own troops and millions of ethic Russians which Russian troops now spend their own lives to save. Only Nazis are that stupid and insane.

RepoMan007:
if they didn't blow it, why lie about its repairs requiring many years except sanctions are lifted? You must think everyone is a social media influencer working for Russian consultancies linked to propaganda engine rooms of Putin.

Perfect! Russia bombed the pipes, to waste the gas they have been withholding all these months, yeah a squad of Russian ninjas with invisivility potions snuck right in front of NATO back pool and did it. Lol, cause retarded western buttniffers says so.

Babapyro:
Reports as even stated she's now hiding from the public cos no one has seen her in a week

I predict she will not last long on the seat.

It suits Germany. That's the price you pay when you dine with the devil. They can now get their gas 7 timed the price from Uncle Sam.

Uprightness100:
NATO Secretary General convenes an emergency meeting of the Alliance's Board of Directors

At the meeting, Jens Stoltenberg urged all NATO members to replenish their stockpiles of weapons.

It's getting thicker ..the Prophecy of Alois Irlmaier coming in to play.

iykofias:
Since the arrival of Liz Truss as prime minister (and this happened just three weeks ago), the United Kingdom stock market has lost half a trillion dollars, writes Bloomberg.

I guess Project Europe is working perfectly according to plan for Uncle Sam.

I must admit, like Putin said, they knew how to work.

iykofias:
why would they blow pipeline the can easily shut the valves, engage your mind I’m sure it won’t hurt you.
Now the Germans are fuming

Must you reply everyone that post gibberish? Some post are just meant for read and laugh.

Whatever, it suits the Germans. While the likes of Turkey will keep getting its gas via Turkstream having played it wise, the Germans can grasp with the reality of their economic demise. As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.

Babapyro:
This is what this fools get for slaving to the US.
Imagine,Biden literarily vowed to destroy it, Germany's source of gas that keeps Thier economy floating,and this people are supposed to be allies.

What goes around comes around. When you dine with the devil, be ready to clear the table, not to mention when you're not using a long spoon. Germany is doing just that.

Clown Zelensky expect everybody to support his stupidity and sellout of his country. He expect Israel to give him weapons when they have a gentlemanly agreement in respect of Syria? Plus the many Russian Jews in Israel?

Zele is truly a clown.

SWATMan:
He knows next to nothing about drone technology and the effects of electromagnetic pulse on it. That Russia purchased those drones can not change the direction of the war which like you rightly said is will power.

On whose direction is the war tilting?

It's nice debating with you guys. Thanks and God bless you all.

Enugurangers:
You caught him there. He would likely type a long story about Robinson Crusoe to deflect your question.

The truth hurts.

Ideological difference doesn't negate the real fact.

For instance, same previous Eastern Bloc countries like Hungary and Poland that were once tagged less developed by the western bloc became tagged as developed by same western bloc after they joined the western economic organizations like the OECD following the collapse of the Soviet Union. That's the demonstration of the ideological difference at play.

Enugurangers:
Dumbass. It was one of your nkita on the first page that 1st used that term. Direct your education to your nkita.

Okay, but do you agree with the correct usage now?

opamoses1:
- If you knew this, then why were you rooting for someone that says China is a "1st world country" ?
- Instead of correcting him/them that "according to ideological differences", China is/was a 2nd world country.

I am just curious.

I told them that from the beginning but they refused to believe or accept it even though it's all over the web.

For instance, the moment the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact collapsed, nations such as Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland who later joined up with western organizations like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), become known as developed nations.

It's just a matter of ideological difference ...

You can read it here:

"https://intelligence.fandom.com/wiki/CIA_developed_country_list"

VKN23:
oga which world a country is had nothing to do with development

You're not making sense.

You said a country had to be a democracy to be called a developed country, then I pointed out to you that Saudi Arabia isn't a democracy but is classified as developed. How about that?

Enugurangers:
See as you have brought links here. You even added a screenshot, so you are not dull afterall. I was beginning to think you were.

Now do the same (links, screenshots e.t.c) to support the claim of your Minion that China is a first world country. We will be waiting.

First, learn to be smart by stopping to use the term "first world" for Christ sake. It's Developed or developing country now.

Secondly, China don't even give a dime about whether anyone classified it as developed or developing nation. They're even happy to be called a developing nation for reasons we will see shortly.

Now, go and read up some of the replies I wrote about this and see why I said even the United Nations HDI bases of ratings is flawed, and as such China can never be ranked as developed nation based on the said limited indices. But that is just for the HDI.

The WTO has it's criteria of rating a nation as developed or developing as well, which is totally different from that of the UN HDI. The WTO criteria is " it is entirely up to the Goodwill of member nations to classify themselves as Developed or Developing". And guess what China did? They happily loved to be called a 'developing' nation because it enable them to enjoy the same special and differential treatment afforded to nations like Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe. This thing dey make US vex die to the extent they have called for a reform of the WTO because China they use am pack money and privilege anyhow. The bastards Chinkos even calls it a "fundamental right" to be labelled a developing country.

See it here:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-11/why-china-is-still-categorised-as-a-developing-country/10980480

Now, like I said before in other replies, here China is a developed nation in respect of many other indices. Here are some academic professors that classified China as a Developed nation:

https://chinapower.csis.org/is-china-a-developed-country/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20World%20Bank,15%20can%20read%20and%20write.

opamoses1:
East and West Germany were same before but not the same after the 2nd world war.

After the war,
East Germany = Oppressive
West Germany= Affluent

It's common knowledge that people were risking limbs and lives to cross from East to West just like North Koreans often try to cross to South Korea. There was an order to shoot East Germans that try to cross to the West.

The point is the ideological difference which led to the classification of 1st and 2nd and 3rd world countries, terms that no one uses any more.

joyandfaith:
US did not classify countries. You can provide your own source of classification of countries. Even Chinese and Russian scholars know that their countries are not first world countries.
Primary school knowledge.

You seem to have so much joyandfaith in parotting igonarance.

The US do classify nations as developed or developing. Checkout the CIA World Factbook.

There are no first world, second world or third world nations any more. Those terms are gone now even though some people still use them loosely.

"https://www.history.com/news/why-are-countries-classified-as-first-second-or-third-world "

And those ( like some of you here) who wants to use them as a ranking scheme were described as "perfect nonesense" by this academic website:

"http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/10/150.html"

The proper term now is Developed or Developing nations. These are the terms the UN HDI is currently using to rank developed or developing nations of the world. And contrary to what you want to believe, Russia is rated as developed nation by the UN HDI.

Stop embarrassing yourself.

VKN23:
To be a first world country you have to practice democracy does China practice democracy

Another seriously flawed logic.

If democracy is the criteria for rating a country as developed (since all the agencies and organizations doing the ratings no longer uses 1st, 2nd or 3rd countries), then how would you rate Saudi Arabia, a monarchy which the UN HDI rated as a developed nation?.

Enugurangers:
I need a proof as well sir. They are calling you a prof.

I'm not a Prof but certainly not a dummy like those guys here.

You don't expect me to prove their case for them. They said China isn't a first world country (for goodness sake, no one even used that term again) and I replied by saying they're wrong because the ratings of countries like China, Russia, and co as 2nd World countries while the west that does the rating are called 1st world countries is PURELY down to ideological and geopolitical differences during the the cold war.

For example, West Germany was classified as 1st word while East Germany was classified as 2nd world. Why? Because the western part was ruled by the West (the US and its allies) while the Eastern part was ruled by the East (the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies). Hence, the classification was purely ideological because the the West and East were the same before the Berlin Wall was built.

Today, the story is still the same although it has improved compared to previous times.
The United Nations and other world renown agencies are no longer using 1st world, 2nd world and 3rd world ratings (you can only find the last one on textbooks or newspapers publications when referencing African and MiddleEastern countries). The new terminology now is "Developed and Developing nations". So, these people still basing their ratings on the old scale of 1st, 2nd and 3rd is wrong ab initio.

Now, when it comes to the United Nations Human Development Index used in ranking and classifying nations as developed, these guys forget that the HDI also has many challenges because some of its indices used in gauging such ratings are seriously flawed and at variance with some other bodies because they do not take somethings like population difference into consideration.

For instance, the full HDI 2020 list, starts on a count of 0.1 to .80. Any score .80 or higher is developed, and anything lower is developing.

In arriving at this list, the HDI is quantified by looking at a country's human development, such as education, health, and life expectancy.
Surprisingly, Turkey is on that list as developed, Honk Kong is there too, Montenegro and Kazhastan too, but China is not. Yet, when you compared some of the indices between China and Montenegro here: https://www.worlddata.info/country-comparison.php?country1=CHN&country2=MNE, you would agreed that China should be up there as well, not to mention the huge size difference in population and achievement in sectors like industrialization and technology that were ignored by the HDI.


Now, what about Honk kong, which is under Chinese rule as at present? Except people want to sell a stone that Turkey is more "democratic" and politically stable than China.

Should there really be the same HDI comparison between Qatar, Malta to China giving the sheer differences in the socio- economic and political culture/reality and geographical spread?

For example, San Marino, Saudi Arabia and Slovenia and Mauritius are ranked as developed nations because they score a rating of 0.8 or higher based on the HDI indices stated earlier. But the reality is that, these countries are not even up to some villages or one town in China in terms of population. What this mean is that supposing a city like Beijing which has 21 million people has excellent healthcare and top-notch human services, that qualifies it as developed region, it still would be termed not developed simply because some few areas in China lacked similar quality in the aforementioned indices. Meanwhile, San Marino which has a population of less than 34,000 people would be termed developed simply because the aforementioned HDI indices were easily spread across the nation which is not even up to size of my village.

If that is not flawed, then I wonder what is.

Pierocash:
You won't blame them. Nairaland is filled with illiterates,and kids. You try to educate them but they will be arguing blindly

If these guys were wise, they could have at least take the time to ponder why would the west rate a country like Iceland developed but China or Russia isn't developed? They don't even bother to look at the indices of these countries to compare and contrast. All they do is just jump in and say "yes sir, that's correct", like slaves use to do. I mean, is disheartening.

This was why and how they easily believed stories like the Ghost of Kiev who single handedly killed 100 pilots. Independent reasoning is the problem with these folks.

ken6488:
google that is manipulated?

Tell me why China is not a first world country

gambojimeta cum Jimetagambo, can you please answer this question? Why is China not a first world country since you agree it isn't?

jimetagambo:
In academia, we use references to back up our claims. You know we don't want to be plagiarizing stuffs neither do we want to pull out facts from our black arse.

Can you help them with a link Professor Akamu aka poisonedappleyard?

If from gambojimeta to Jimetagambo you couldn't decipher that western and eastern ideological differences plays a huge role in classifying countries as developed and developing, there is no amount of apple I would give you from my vineyard that would cure your mental enslavement. I'm sorry, bro.

Just the same way your "western supremacy" academic obscuring books of history fed you with the lie that Christopher Columbus was the first to discover the Americas, even though it was blacks that did first, same way they have sold you the dumbest notion that China is a developing nation.

And like the sheep you are, you bought it, line hook and sinker.

I weep for this generation of brainwashed Africans.

Pierocash:
You better go to China for brain surgery so you can keep been fooled.

So if US calls you a goat and they put it in media ,picked by Google,then you become a goat. What kind of self inferiority mentality is this. Isn't this mental slavery?

You ain't seen nothing yet. You're just witnessing the surface of the dept of western brainwashing machine effect on people. Are you just learning now that so many people can't reason independently? I'm sorry, be ready to be disappointed more.

Pierocash:
Bleep off with your Nato biased analysis of what a first world country represents and not what US calls it.

A first world country is a country that is developed ,industrialized, politically stable, and economically strong. Ewu

Who told you that is the definition of a First world country? How dare you!

According to western knowledge, a 1st World countries are those within the exclusive club of the US and it's allies during the Cold War. The Soviet Union and its allies are referred to as the 2nd World countries while the rest are 3rd World countries.

The ediots you're arguing with don't even know that these terms are archiac politically correct terms used by the West to gauge the political, economic and ideological differences between them and the East. They're now replaced with terms like "developed" and "developing" countries, and that is where the stupidity even becomes more pronounced.

It will shock you to know that a nation like Iceland is rated by the west as developed while China and Russia is rated as developing. Now, you can understand how warped and slipshodly jingoistic the typical western ideology and narrative is.

toxtimmy:
Well spoken.... The west and NATO did everything to get Poronshenko out of power because he had some some reasonable lines he won't cross... Even Zelenskiy threatened to jail poronshenko because of his coal business he did in eastern Ukraine... If not the fear of Poronshenko strong influence in western Ukrainian he would have been in jail by now.

Even at that they still try to humiliate Poronshenko every opportunity they get just like how he was stopped at land border when he was entering Poland not too long ago... It's even said Putin offered him political asylum in Russia.

Bottom line is Ukraine is finished... NATO and the west politicians know it... but zelensky does not even know it even though it is right in front of his eyes... All this is just madness at this stage and unfortunately he has no choice because all his millions are all in western banks, he cannot even withdraw $10000 from his millions of dollars account without someone somewhere approving it...they only way out for him is keep on the madness, negotiate a peace deal real fast while accepting the chance of being terminated anyway or run to Russia for safety.

The western and NATO politicians don't respect him at all... He is a useful tool for them... He is a tampon and will be thrown away by the west soon once they are done with him.

I couldn't have said it any better.